Islamic scholars Memes

Thanks to the brilliant minds of medieval Islamic scholars like al-Khwarizmi, we're all stuck factoring polynomials and solving for x. The word "algebra" literally comes from the Arabic "al-jabr" (الجبر), part of the title of al-Khwarizmi's 9th-century mathematical treatise. So next time you're sweating through quadratic equations or crying over variables, remember who to blame. Those medieval Muslims gave us coffee too, though, so I guess we'll call it even.